Re: Potential issues (security and otherwise) with the current cgroup-bpf API

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Jan 19 2017 - 04:00:20 EST


On Wed 18-01-17 14:18:50, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Michal.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 02:58:30PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > This would require using hierarchical cgroup iterators to iterate over
>
> It does behave hierarchically.
>
> > tasks. As per Andy's testing this doesn't seem to be the case. I haven't
>
> That's not what Andy's testing showed. What that showed was that
> program in a child can override the one from its ancestor.

My fault, I've misread Andy's test case. I thought that the child group
simply disabled the bpf program and the one from the parent hasn't
executed.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs